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February 17, 2010

Charter revision panel needs overhaul

Mayor Art Ward said this morning he goofed on the makeup of the newly appointed Charter Revision Commission, accidentally installing one Democrat too many.
Though the law allows for only four of the seven members to hail from one party, the City Council approved a panel that has five Democrats.
Ward said he's asked for the resignation of the last person picked for the commission -- Bruce Suchinski -- and intends to replace him with an independent woman chosen by city Councilor Kate Matthews.
A special council session will likely be called next week to ratify the change.

37 comments:

Ward's easy way of getting rid of Bruce Suchinski . Nice have some back bone and tell everyone you don't want someone that was charged with a crime on the board. Matthews should do a better job of vetting her choices.http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=4092

Take This Job and Shove it

Assuming the allegations are true, Bruce Suchinski lived the American dream. Sort of. According to media reports, the 57-year-old Bristol resident quit his job as a state marshal four years ago, but figured out a way to keep getting paid for it. According to media reports, while Suchinski handed over his resignation in 2004, police say, he never stopped collecting money for court-ordered debts. Reports say he never actually paid the debts, and instead allegedly accrued a not-entirely-insignificant sum of $6,000. He was hit with second-degree larceny, impersonation and other charges in New Britain on Friday, Nov. 2, and could possibly be sentenced to a decade in prison.

Art/Eddy screwed up by not understaning the rules.They want to pick on the "girl", but she isgivng BS a chance that both of theother two criminals recieved.BothArt and Ed were forgiven for theirtransgressions. I think Kate shouldrequire Art to give up his pick,and not let Art/Eddy bully her!!

Bristol GOP: bought off by appointments...case in point, Casar, Schaffrick, Joe G-what's his face (actually he's even too stupid for even Ward to appoint), Krawiecki, TJ etc...all in the Democrat Mayor's pocket. Hey kudos to Ward. He's better than what the GOP's been offering for a decade anyway (except for Stortz maybe).

the fact that the mayor is actually taking responsibility for something is the big story here. It took 2 + years and yeah, he is using Kate Matthews as his punching bag, but it worked so well with his other favorite female Democrat that who is surprised he would use this stratagy again? Not me.

Steve, why didn't you tell your readers that th "short window" is being imposed by Ward? State law gives them until next June to deliver their report. But he expects the Commission to recommend changing his term from 2 to 4 years, and he wants be be able to run for 4 years in 2011. That can only happen if they get this change on the ballot in 2010.

Steve, what's the deal with the replacement that is being appointed at yet another special Council meeting? Isn't that seat supposed to be a non-Democrat? I heard she is clearly a Democrat even if she isn't currently registered as one. Seems fishy.

If she's not a registered Democrat, she can serve. There's no test to determine if somebody's not really unaffiliated. It's just a matter of how someone is registered.I think we all understand that can be abused.

What should Steve do if the Press closes?

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